Lou Dare said her son had purchased a bag of flour to make pancakes from the shop. She said when he returned home with the flour she spotted that the best before date had been altered with a pen from 2016 to 2018.

Mrs Dare says the date had been altered with a pen

A South Gloucestershire Council spokesperson said: “Our Environmental Health team has been made aware of these allegations and officers will visit the premises to follow up on the two complaints received this week.

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“Food either has a Best Before date or a Use By date. Best Before dates are applied by manufacturers as a guide to quality. And while it is not an offence to sell produce beyond the Best Before date, the business owner should be confident that it remains of acceptable quality to the customer. It is however an offence to sell food past the Use By date and officers will be advising the store of their legal obligations."

The shop’s owners deny the allegations. Sajda Parveen, the wife of the shop owner, said: "We would never do that, we own several shops and my husband has been running shops since he was nineteen years old.